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2Ch 21:1 Now Jehoshaphat
slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2Ch 21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel,
and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were
the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2Ch 21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold,
and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave
he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
2Ch 21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he
strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers
also of the princes of Israel.
2Ch 21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2Ch 21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the
house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought
that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2Ch 21:7 Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of
the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a
light to him and to his sons for ever.
2Ch 21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
Judah, and made themselves a king.
2Ch 21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots
with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed
him in, and the captains of the chariots.
2Ch 21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he
had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.
2Ch 21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and
caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled
Judah thereto.
2Ch 21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked
in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of
Judah,
2Ch 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a-whoring, like to the
whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy
father's house, which were better than thyself:
2Ch 21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and
thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
2Ch 21:15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,
until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
2Ch 21:16 Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
2Ch 21:17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away
all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also,
and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the
youngest of his sons.
2Ch 21:18 And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
2Ch 21:19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of
two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of
sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of
his fathers.
2Ch 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired.
Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of
the kings. |